Hospital blunders over DVT

The family of a woman allegedly sent home from hospital with a handful of paracetamol a week before dying from deep vein thrombosis (DVT) say they believe inadequate hospital procedure contributed to her death.

The family of a woman allegedly sent home from hospital with a handful of paracetamol a week before dying from deep vein thrombosis (DVT) say they believe inadequate hospital procedure contributed to her death.

Carolanne Douglas, 43, was rushed to St John's Hospital in Livingston, West Lothian, hours after stepping off a four-hour flight home from a family holiday in Turkey.

Her family doctor suspected she had DVT.

But after a scan, hospital doctors discharged her after telling her and husband Paul, 47, that the thrombosis was in a superficial vein.